Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, Late Bishop of London: With His Life, Volym 3

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Sida 65 -f- In this manner did Satan lord it over the human race, till our blessed Saviour
appeared on earth. At that. * Nothing less than diabolical influence can account
for the almost universal custom of human sacrifices, and the atrocious outrages
on ...

Sida 302 ... the composure, the meekness, with which he endured the cruellest insults, and
the grossest indignities; the fortitude he displayed under the most painful and
ignominious death that human ingenuity could devise, or human malignity inflict;
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Sida 306 The circumstances of his uniting the divine and human nature in one person, and
of his being at one and the same time the Messiah of the Jews, and the Instructor,
the Redeemer, the Mediator, and the Judge of Mankind, are so very peculiar, ...

Sida 362 For it is the chief business of human compassion, to heal those wounds which human malignity is constantly inflicting. How much, then, is it to be lamented, that
this most important branch of charity is not more attended to, than it seems to be!

Sida 377 He laughs at the idea of a particular providence, which regulates the minutest
movements both of the natural and the moral world, and consequently looks on
prayer as the idlest and most useless employment in which a human creature
can ...

Sida 29 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

Sida 32 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Sida 7 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret : and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Sida 102 - For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.